The inquisition didn't hunt witches. The inquisition was a official catholic institution, and the catholic church openly claimed, that witches and sorcery does not exist. Witches were burned mostly in protestant regions, where the inquisition had no say.
The inquisition was hunting heretics, who were trying to destabilize the social order. They would have executed socialists/communists, that want to steal from the rich, or jews and muslims trying to subvert the social order. As a matter of fact, getting rid of hidden kikes and muslims after the reconquista of spain was the sole reason, why the spanish inquisition was founded.
There's Inquisition and there's Spanish Inquisition. The faker 'convert' muslims and jews who were infiltrating the Church were removed by the Spanish royalty in charge of government. The “Black Legend” began as an anti-Spanish propaganda campaign. The lies persisted ever since. Even today 'the Inquisition!' propaganda is thrown out as a weapon to kill debate or discussion on the topic.
https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=CY-pS6iLFucBBC's The Myth of the Spanish Inquisition
There's Inquisition and there's Spanish Inquisition.
There are lots of lies about any kind of inquisition thrown around. It's quite common in history, that some less tyrannical regime gets toppled by a more tyrannical one, and then gets smeared as the ultimate evil. Christianity smeared pagans as bloodthirsty primitives, later catholicism got smeared by protestants, then christian monarchy and traditional society got smeared by french revolutionaries and nationalists, nationalists got smeared by communists, and so on. In all those cases the toppled regime was far more beneficial than the toppled one, but those black-propaganda-lies are still believed, and the falsehoods are seen as "progress".
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